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PM visits Shafallah Center 07 Dec 2014 - 04:18 am

The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani visited Shafallah Center for Children with Special...

Protests in Lebanon as Syria jihadists kill policeman 07 Dec 2014 - 02:51 am

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, sit near a vehicle with a banner of soldier Ali Al...

Iran confirms air strikes against IS 07 Dec 2014 - 02:50 am

BAGHDAD: A senior Iranian official has confirmed his country carried out air strikes in neighbouring Iraq against Islamic State fighters at the request...

Lifetime achievement award 07 Dec 2014 - 02:48 am

Egyptian actor Adel Emam receives the lifetime achievement award at the jury photocall for the 14th Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday.

After power struggle, Somalia PM loses confidence vote 07 Dec 2014 - 02:48 am

A journalist working with London-based Kalsan TV, Abdulkadir Hassan Jokar, lies yesterday on a hospital bed in the central Somali city of Baidoa...

Egypt court upholds death for seven 07 Dec 2014 - 02:24 am

CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday upheld death sentences for seven men over the killing of 25 policemen in the Sinai Peninsula last year...

IS militants kill 16 of Iraqi tribe 07 Dec 2014 - 02:24 am

BAGHDAD: Islamic State fighters kidnapped and killed 16 members of an Iraqi tribe which has fought the Sunni militant group in the western...

Christians being driven out of Mideast, says Pope 07 Dec 2014 - 02:23 am

ARBIL: Pope Francis said Christians are being “driven from the Middle East” in a message to Iraqi Christians forced to flee by Islamic...

Ambedkar’s death anniversary 07 Dec 2014 - 02:20 am

Dalits take a nap near statues of B R Ambedkar, displayed for sale on his 58th death anniversary in Mumbai yesterday. Ambedkar, a...

Broom-ing up 07 Dec 2014 - 02:18 am

Newly-married Hindu couples hold brooms as they pledge to clean their houses, after taking their wedding vows during a mass marriage ceremony in...

Key accused in Burdwan blast arrested 07 Dec 2014 - 02:17 am

Guwahati: Shahnur Alom, a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant who is a key accused in the October 2 blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan district,...

Kashmir attacks shameful, says Modi 07 Dec 2014 - 02:17 am

Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday described the terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir as a “shameful act on the democratic process” in...

Some blinded by botched surgery may get back sight 07 Dec 2014 - 02:16 am

NEW DELHI: Doctors may be able to restore the vision of at least six of the 20 people blinded by botched free cataract...

Taxi driver rapes woman in Delhi 07 Dec 2014 - 02:16 am

New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a cab driver when she was returning home in Delhi after completing her shift...

Another AAP leader joins BJP 07 Dec 2014 - 02:15 am

New Delhi: Ashok Kumar Chauhan, the former Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar constituency, yesterday joined the BJP. He said he...

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar in hospital 07 Dec 2014 - 02:15 am

Mumbai: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who is suffering from severe cold and cough, was yesterday taken to the Lilavati Hospital here, a close...

Additional 1,000 US troops to stay in Afghanistan: Hagel 07 Dec 2014 - 02:14 am

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani shakes hands with US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel during an arrival ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul...

Top Al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan 07 Dec 2014 - 02:11 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said yesterday that it had killed a senior Al Qaeda leader wanted by the US over a 2009 plot to...